İSTANBUL (ÇENGELKÖY)

18 - Trainers Changing Roles in Inclusive Education

Project Owner: Çengelköy Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School

Number of Participants: 6

Project No.: 2015-1-TR01-KA101-020441

The special needs individuals’ having education and being socially integrated with their fellows, which has been adopted and practiced by lots of countries in the
world, requires Inclusive Education. In Turkey, inclusion practices have been started with the law of Special Needs Kids being brought into force in 1983; but there have been problems about the
practice although a developed legal base relating to the subject is available.

Putting the education into practice successfully by means of inclusive education requires taking

various steps in the implementation phase. The basic problem is that practitioners do not know understanding, interpretation and practice of inclusion due to the fact
that they are not provided with special education support. In the inclusion practice, the role of teacher has a privileged position in that the teacher will provide a healthy communication between
the inclusive students and the other students and create a special ambience for their special needs which will help them continue their lives in a happy, active and accepted way starting from the
class in the smallest scale to the school and finally in the society. Within the scope of changing roles of practitioners in the process of inclusive education project which is intended for sharing
information and experiences internationally, it is aimed that participants have preliminary education in Turkey and complete their education in an EU member country. For this reason, 5 days of
preliminary education will be given to all teachers of Çengelköy Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School by Counselling and Research Center of Üsküdar.

In the end of this project, the participants will become a quality labour force of international

standards in Turkey, being an applicant for EU, with the qualifications they will get and they

will undertake important tasks in the subject of extensifying and improving the education system they serve for.